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Digital Seminar

Co-Responsibility and Boundaries: Working with Individual Issues in the Context of Couples Therapy


Average Rating:
   149
Speaker:
Alexandra Solomon, PhD
Duration:
1 Hour 16 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
17 Dec, 2024
Product Code:
NOS096571
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Never expires.


Description

This program explores how to effectively address individual challenges within the context of couples therapy. Participants will learn to externalise one partner’s issue without pathologising, support couples in developing realistic expectations, and assign therapeutic tasks to both the “affected” and “non-affected” partners. The course also covers strategies for addressing codependency and demonstrates the RRF in action through a case involving health habit discrepancies.

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Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is internationally recognized as one of today’s most trusted voices in the world of relationships, and her framework for Relational Self-Awareness has reached millions of people around the globe. A couple therapist, speaker, author, and professor, Dr. Alexandra is passionate about translating cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom into practical tools people can use to bring awareness, curiosity and authenticity to their relationships.

She is a clinician educator and a frequent contributor to academic journals, and she translates her academic and therapeutic experience to the public through her popular Instagram page, which has garnered a quarter of million followers. She is an adjunct professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, and she is the face of MasterClass in Practice. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, who works with individuals and couples in private practice.

Her hit podcast, Reimagining Love, reaches thousands of listeners across the globe each week and features deep dives into complex relationship dynamics as well as conversations with high-profile guests from the worlds of therapy, academia, and pop culture. She is the award-winning author of three bestselling books: Love Every Day, Loving Bravely and Taking Sexy Back. Her work has been covered by outlets including NPR, Today, New York Times, Scientific American, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Alexandra Solomon is the owner and founder of The Institute for Relational Self-Awareness and has an employment relationship with MasterClass and Northwestern University. She receives royalties as a published author and is the podcast host of Reimaging Love. She is the founding expert for Mine'd app. Dr. Solomon receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Alexandra Solomon is an ad hoc for several peer review journals, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc. Dr. Solomon is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).

 


Objectives

  1. Develop the ability to understand the interaction of individual/intrapsychic issues and relational issue in order to help couples move from codependency to co-responsibility
  2. Articulate the difference between self-focused caregiving and other-focused caregiving in order to help partners empower (rather than enable) each other
  3. Assist couples in creating and maintaining realistic expectations of themselves and each other, fostering healthier and more balanced relationships.

Outline

  • Recursive Relational Framework (RRF)
  • Externalising one partner’s individual challenge
  • Helping couples creating realistic expectations of self and other
  • Therapeutic tasks for the “non-affected” partner
  • Therapeutic tasks for the “affected” partner
  • Addressing codependency
  • RRF in action: Navigating a Health Habit Discrepancy

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers 
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Psychotherapists
  • Other Behavioural Health Professionals

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Overall:      4.9

Total Reviews: 149

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